{"id":1471955,"date":"2022-05-11T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471955"},"modified":"2022-05-11T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:00:54","slug":"senate-confirms-bidens-radical-ftc-pick-criticized-for-anti-ice-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-confirms-bidens-radical-ftc-pick-criticized-for-anti-ice-stance\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Biden\u2019s \u2018Radical\u2019 FTC Pick Criticized For Anti-ICE Stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-confirms-bidens-radical-ftc-pick-criticized-for-anti-ice-stance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471955&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee Alvaro Bedoya to the empty fifth seat on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).<\/p>\n<p>The 50-50 Senate vote was broken with a tie breaking vote by Vice President Kamala Harris, giving Democrats a 3-2 advantage at the FTC. Bedoya, who is professor at Georgetown Law, was previously criticized by Senate Republicans for his past comments on social media and in other outlets opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after President Joe <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/10\/joe-biden-incoherent-speech-inflation-strength\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden<\/a> announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/07\/ted-cruz-gofundme-ftc-freedom-convoy-canada-trucker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nomination<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/alvaro-bedoya-federal-trade-commission-data-ice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Radical Leftist\u2019: Senate Poised To Confirm Biden Nominee Who Is Anti-ICE)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s become clear that Alvaro Bedoya would be a rubber stamp for President Biden\u2019s failed radical agenda,\u201d Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz told the Daily Caller News Foundation ahead of Bedoya\u2019s confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Republican on the Commerce Committee \u2013 a panel with a long tradition of bipartisan consensus \u2013 has supported Bedoya, because he\u2019s a partisan who\u2019s unqualified to fill this position. The Senate should reject his nomination and President Biden should nominate someone else who\u2019s qualified,\u201d Cruz added.<\/p>\n<p>When discussing reported private company data sharing with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/11\/ice-deportations-joe-biden-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICE<\/a> in February 2021, Bedoya <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alvarombedoya\/status\/1365422051704602631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1365422051704602631%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2021%2F11%2F16%2Fjoe-biden-ice-federal-trade-commission-alvaro-bedoya%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">labeled<\/a> the agency \u201can out-of-control domestic surveillance agency that peers into all our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you\u2019re wondering whether strong utilities privacy laws and laws to rein in data brokers could have helped here, the answer to that question is YES.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to call ICE what it is: An out-of-control domestic surveillance agency that peers into all our lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alvaro Bedoya (@alvarombedoya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alvarombedoya\/status\/1365422051704602631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bedoya also criticized the use of private data by ICE to deport migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalantir\u2019s case management software, data analysis and visualization software, and mobile app are the final layer of ICE\u2019s vast surveillance and data sharing network,\u201d Bedoya wrote in a September 2020 Slate <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2020\/09\/palantir-ice-deportation-immigrant-surveillance-big-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">column<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bedoya expressed regret over some of his past statements to lawmakers in November, but it wasn\u2019t enough for Senate Republicans, like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who argued Tuesday that Bedoya is a \u201cradical partisan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Bedoya is such a poor fit that the first time Leader Schumer tried to shut down debate on his nomination, he lacked the votes and had to call it off,\u201d McConnell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats want this hardcore partisan confirmed very badly. So here we are again,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate voted Wednesday to confirm President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee Alvaro Bedoya to the empty fifth seat on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).The 50-50 Senate vote was broken with a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":1482643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}